Studies of the cylinder-ground double bounce scattering mechanism in forest backscatter models

An integration methodology is presented for computing fields backscattered by the cylinder-ground double bounce scattering mechanism, in which randomly tilted, finite length dielectric cylinders stand on a slightly rough lossy surface, Based on the Stratton-Chu integral technique, incorporating exact solutions of fields scattered by the cylinders, the method yields like- and cross-polarized responses and polarization phase differences. Numerical results are reported.>